Past Surmountable Newsletters

Issues

70 issues and counting from affordable housing to zero waste, together for the first time in 2022 and early 2023, with over 2,500 resources to understand our situation and over 800 actions that you can take today for a better tomorrow.

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Sorted by Topic

Sorted by Problem

Affordable housing Animal protection Art education and creativity Balanced budget Bilingual education Biodiversity City parks and urban trees Coastal flood prevention Composting Cost of university Criminal justice reform Disaster preparedness Diverse political candidates Ergonomics and employee safety Equal pay and equal rights Fan-owned sports teams Fashion diversity Financial literacy Food policy Food security Four day work week Gender respect Gun safety reform Holistic history Immigrant integration Impartial elections Inclusive teaching Intergovernmental organizations K-12 school performance Local manufacturing Martial arts and self-defense Mass transit Media literacy Mental health Middle income housing National defense National parks Organ transplant reform Pain relief without addiction Pandemic recovery Parental and caregiver leave Personal accountability Pet adoption Planetary defense Police accountability Preschool and child care Public libraries Recess and playgrounds Renewable energy Right to privacy Right to repair Right to vote Safe driving Self-determination Slavery abolition Sleep quality STEM representation Sustainable agriculture Sustainable apparel Sustainable seafood Trails and sidewalks Universal broadband Universal healthcare Vegetarian and sustainable diets Water conservation Water quality Watershed protection Wildfire prevention Zero waste

Algal bloom and red tide Animal cruelty Asteroid impacts Back pain and workplace injuries Book banning Broken promises Bullying Digital divide Disinformation and conspiracies Drought and water shortage Drunk and impaired driving Early education expenses Election denial Electronic waste (e-waste) Exploited landscapes Factory closures Fashion uniformity Fast fashion and textile waste Federal debt Food waste Fossil fuel dependence Government overreach Gun violence Historical ignorance Housing crisis Housing shortage Human trafficking Hunger Immigration backlog Inflexible work schedules Insufficient physical education International peacekeeping Lack of emergency preparation Lack of empathy Lack of parents on school board Limited family support Long COVID and prolonged grief Loss of divergent thinking Mass incarceration Medical debt Mental illness and suicide Military waste Money mismanagement Noise and light pollution Obesity Opioid epidemic Organ donation burdens Overfishing Physical inactivity Plastic pollution Police militarization Poor education Puppy mills and unethical shelters Sea level rise Sexism Sexual harassment Soil erosion and famine Stadium subsidies STEM representation Student debt Taxation without representation Traffic Underrepresentation Unsustainable diet Urban heat islands Voter intimidation Water contamination Wildlife extinction Wildfires

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Challenges

There are also challenges we all have to overcome when trying to tackle any issue bigger than any single individual. Some we can control, while others embody the struggle:

Sorted by Control	Sorted by Struggle
Awareness Common ground Optimism and pragmatism Responsibility and choice Today	Anxiety Division Pessimism, cynicism, and apathy Results Tomorrow